July 2, 2020

• Minor warning fixes for VS 2019 (16.7)
• CMake updates
• texassemble: Fixed animated gif handling with transparency

This version is also available on NuGet as version 2020.7.2

• Windows desktop app using VS 2017 or VS 2019
• Windows desktop app using VS 2017 or VS 2019 for Windows 10 / DX 12
• Universal Windows Platform apps using VS 2017 or VS 2019

June 15, 2020

• Code cleanup for some new VC++ 16.7 warnings and static code analysis
• texconv: Updated with support for Portable Pix Map (ppm) & Portable Float Map (pfm) file formats

This version is also available on NuGet as version 2020.6.15

• Windows desktop app using VS 2017 or VS 2019
• Windows desktop app using VS 2017 or VS 2019 for Windows 10 / DX 12
• Universal Windows Platform apps using VS 2017 or VS 2019

June 1, 2020

• Converted to typed enum bitmask flags (see this blog post for details on this potential breaking change)
  • ComputePitch, xxxDDSxxx, xxxWICxxx, FlipRotate, Resize, Convert, GenerateMipMaps, GenerateMipMaps3D, PremultiplyAlpha, Compress, ComputeNormalMap, CopyRectangle, ComputeMSE
• WIC_FLAGS_DEFAULT_SRGB / WIC_LOADER_SRGB_DEFAULT flag added when loading image via WIC without explicit colorspace metadata
• WIC loader for PNG codec now checks gAMA chunk to determine colorspace if the sRGB chunk is not found for legacy sRGB detection.
• Fixed conformance issues when using /Zc:preprocessor
• CMake project updates

This version is also available on NuGet as version 2020.6.2

• Windows desktop app using VS 2017 or VS 2019
• Windows desktop app using VS 2017 or VS 2019 for Windows 10 / DX 12
• Universal Windows Platform apps using VS 2017 or VS 2019

May 10, 2020

• HDR (RGBE Radiance) file format writer updated to accept half16 input
• Code cleanup
• Updated D3DX12 internal copy to Windows 10 SDK (19041) version
• texassemble, texconv, texdiag: Updated with -l switch for case-sensitive file systems
• texconv: Added -dx9 switch to force legacy compatible DDS files
• texconv: Collapsed -bcuniform, -bcdither, -bcquick, and -bcmax into one -bc switch
• Updates to DDSTextureLoader, ScreenGrab, and WICTextureLoader including new DX9 version

This version is also available on NuGet as version 2020.5.11

• Windows desktop app using VS 2017 or VS 2019
• Windows desktop app using VS 2017 or VS 2019 for Windows 10 / DX 12
• Universal Windows Platform apps using VS 2017 or VS 2019

April 3, 2020

• Updated D3DX12 internal copy to latest version
• DDS loader updated for another BC7 FourCC variant
• Code review (constexpr / noexcept usage)
• CMake updated for PCH usage with 3.16 or later

February 14, 2020

• Fixed quality bug in BC4S/BC5S compressor
• Guard for divide-by-zero case in PremultiplyAlpha
• texconv: added -at switch for alpha threshold value with BC1 compression
• texconv: Fixed -nmap when outputing compressed UNORM formats
• Code and project cleaup
• Retired VS 2015 projects

This version is also available on NuGet as version 2020.2.15

• Windows desktop app using VS 2017 or VS 2019
• Windows desktop app using VS 2017 or VS 2019 for Windows 10 / DX 12
• Universal Windows Platform apps using VS 2017 or VS 2019

Note that NuGet package id directxtex_desktop_2017 replaced directxtex_desktop_2015.

See this blog post for more information.

December 17, 2019

• Added ARM64 platform to VS 2019 Win32 desktop Win10 project
• Updated CMake project
• Code cleaup

This version is also available on NuGet as version 2019.12.17

• Windows desktop app using VS 2015 Update 3, VS 2017, or VS 2019
• Windows desktop app using VS 2015 Update 3, VS 2017, or VS 2019 for Windows 10 / DX 12
• Universal Windows Platform apps using VS 2017 or VS 2019

This is the last release I plan to support for VS 2015. See this issue for details and feedback.

October 17, 2019

• Codec readers updated to return TEX_ALPHA_MODE_OPAQUE if reader returned an alpha channel due to conversion
• Added DDS reader support for 'non-standard' BC6H/BC7 FourCC codes used by nVidia texture tools
• TGA codec updated for TGA 2.0
• Minor code review
• Updated ScreenGrab module
• texconv: Added -fixbc4x4 switch

This version is also available on NuGet as version 2019.10.17

• Windows desktop app using VS 2015 Update 3, VS 2017, or VS 2019
• Windows desktop app using VS 2015 Update 3, VS 2017, or VS 2019 for Windows 10 / DX 12
• Universal Windows Platform apps using VS 2017 or VS 2019

August 21, 2019

• Updated D3DX12 internal copy to latest version
• Added texassemble, texconv, and texdiag to CMake project
• Code cleanup

This version is also available on NuGet as version 2019.8.23

• Windows desktop app using VS 2015 Update 3, VS 2017, or VS 2019
• Windows desktop app using VS 2015 Update 3, VS 2017, or VS 2019 for Windows 10 / DX 12
• Universal Windows Platform apps using VS 2017 or VS 2019

June 30, 2019

• Additional validation for Direct3D 11 texture loaders
• Clang/LLVM warning cleanup
• Renamed DirectXTex_Windows10.vcxproj to _Windows10_2017.vcxproj
• Added VS 2019 UWP project